Wrapping up 2025 and our Five-Year Partnership with Clark County
As 2025 is coming to a close, so is our five-year partnership with Clark County, Nevada. KLA’s long-term collaboration with Clark County exemplifies our mission to build local capacity to drive measurable outcomes from climate action.
Of course, we delivered the signature KLA services: Regional GHG Inventory, Climate Vulnerability Assessment, and two sustainability and climate action plans (one for government operations and one for the community). But, because this was a five-year endeavor in a community fresh on the climate action scene, we also had the opportunity to take our focus on capacity building to the next level.
KLA always incorporates training and leave-behind tools that allow our local government clients to drive implementation on their own. With Clark County, we were far more “hands on” than we are typically able to be in three key ways:
Staff Capacity
After KLA completed all the necessary assessments and the climate action plans, the County asked KLA to support implementation of the Community Plan. From securing funding for priority projects, to recruitment videos and candidate interviews, to training (like facilitation) and developing staff workplans, the KLA Team, led by Kim, was fully integrated into OOS. We even had our own office (shown here)!
Kim and other KLA staff travelled to Clark County monthly or every other month for more than a year to work directly with the Office of Sustainability team to drive implementation of the All-In Community Plan. While we know that not everyone has the same budget available to them, the opportunity to leverage Kim’s extensive experience building teams that drive climate action is priceless. Stay tuned in 2026 for new, affordable ways KLA will help you train your team up on climate action best practices. Fun team dinners (shown here), too!
To help build Clark County's Office of Sustainability and recruit top-tier candidates, we developed this series of recruitment videos:
Equitable Engagement
By now, there is no doubt that you have heard of KLA’s Climate Ambassadors program. This has been one of our keystone offerings for nearly a decade, and it’s the reason that several of our clients have achieved the most inclusive planning processes in their history.
Many of our clients build our Ambassadors model into their planning process: sending Ambassadors out in the community to get feedback that shapes a plan. With Clark County, we extended that robust engagement into plan implementation. A plan can only come to life if your community members are taking action, and Ambassadors can help educate and motivate. The expanded engagement program included:
Regional Collaboration
KLA facilitated the Regional Climate Collaborative of Southern Nevada (RCC) from its inception. The RCC was formed through an interlocal agreement between Clark County, the Cities of Boulder City, Henderson, Las Vegas, Mesquite, and North Las Vegas, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada. The group meets monthly to further climate action throughout the region. Over the last few months, KLA resourced this group to develop and drive implementation of workplans focused on:
Members of the RCC at a meeting at the Hoover Dam
We will miss spending time with the Clark County team – from the Office of Sustainability and Climate Ambassadors to the Regional Climate Collaborative members – and our visits to Southern Nevada (especially when we’re freezing back in Boston). But we can close out our All-In work with a great deal of pride. Our five-year partnership with Clark County is a true reflection of KLA’s mission to build capacity for local governments to implement aggressive, equitable solutions to climate change.
It’s not boxes checked or plans that will grow stale. It’s outcomes over outputs. It’s a team built from the ground up that is now empowered and resourced to build on the momentum. It’s our confidence that Clark County is now taking action to match the urgency of the climate crisis.
Thank you Marci, Jodi and everyone with Clark County's Department of Environment and Sustainability!